Help Design and Lead a $120,000 Open Test of Earth’s Geometry

World’s Last Chance (WLC) has announced its commitment of US $120,000 toward an open scientific investigation of one of the most fundamental questions concerning the world in which we live:

Does measured terrestrial geometry conform to the curvature predicted by the conventional spherical/ellipsoidal Earth model, or does the evidence support a planar geometry?

WLC has already publicly committed to accepting the scientifically valid outcome of the experiment, regardless of whether it supports or contradicts WLC’s current understanding.

WLC is now seeking an independent Scientific Coordinator to help turn that commitment into a rigorous, professionally conducted experiment.

This article provides the information prospective candidates, universities, professional organizations, surveying firms, research institutions, and other qualified parties need to determine whether to contact WLC regarding the position.

The Purpose of the Appointment

The Coordinator’s responsibility will be to develop and oversee the strongest scientifically valid experiment possible for distinguishing between competing geometrical models of Earth.

The Scientific Coordinator will not be hired to prove that the Earth is flat.

Nor will the Coordinator be hired to prove that the Earth is a globe.

The Coordinator’s responsibility will be to develop and oversee the strongest scientifically valid experiment possible for distinguishing between competing geometrical models of Earth.

WLC recognizes that its own present position could influence how the experiment is perceived. For that reason, WLC wants the project’s scientific leadership to be genuinely independent.

We are specifically seeking someone who is willing to challenge WLC’s assumptions, identify weaknesses in proposed methods, recommend alternative procedures, and, if necessary, tell WLC that the proposed experiment cannot answer the question.

WLC considers that kind of criticism a strength rather than a problem.

WLC’s Public Commitment

WLC has publicly committed itself to abide by the scientifically valid outcome.

That commitment will govern the project from beginning to end.

Before the decisive measurements are taken, the project should establish, document, and, where appropriate, preregister:

• the competing mathematical models;
• the predictions made by each model;
• the measurement methodology;
• the instruments to be used;
• calibration procedures;
• environmental measurements;
• treatment of atmospheric refraction;
• geodetic corrections;
• uncertainty estimates;
• statistical methodology;
• criteria for determining whether the results support or contradict each model.

WLC will not knowingly change the fundamental evaluation criteria after seeing the results.

If the results support the conventional spherical/ellipsoidal model, WLC will acknowledge that result.

If the results contradict the conventional model and support a planar model, WLC will acknowledge that result.

The Scientific Coordinator will be expected to help ensure that this commitment is reflected in the actual design and conduct of the investigation.

The Proposed First Experiment

The Scientific Coordinator will have the authority and responsibility to determine whether Lake Michigan is scientifically appropriate and whether a 100 km baseline is optimal.

WLC’s current working concept is a long-baseline precision geodetic investigation, potentially using a baseline of approximately 100 kilometres on Lake Michigan.

This is a proposal, not a final experimental protocol.

The Scientific Coordinator will have the authority and responsibility to determine whether Lake Michigan is scientifically appropriate and whether a 100 km baseline is optimal.

If the Coordinator determines that another location, baseline length, instrument configuration, or measurement technique would provide a stronger test, WLC expects that recommendation to be made.

The purpose of the experiment is to compare the predictions of competing geometric models with actual measurements.

Illustrative 100 km predictions

For a simplified spherical model with Earth’s radius of approximately 6,371 km, a 100 km baseline produces a substantial geometric effect.

For illustration, the idealized spherical calculation gives approximately:

• 785 metres of surface departure relative to a tangent plane at one endpoint over 100 km;
• approximately 196 metres of midpoint sagitta relative to the straight chord joining equal-elevation endpoints;
• approximately 26.98 arcminutes of geometric depression of the opposite equal-elevation point relative to the local horizontal at each endpoint.

Under a simple ideal planar model, the corresponding geometric curvature term would be:

• 0 metres of curvature;
• 0 metres of midpoint sagitta;
• 0 arcminutes of curvature-induced reciprocal depression.

These figures are presented to explain the nature of the proposed test. They are not intended to constitute the final experimental predictions.

The Scientific Coordinator must determine the appropriate mathematical model, reference surface, station elevations, instrument heights, target heights, geodetic corrections, atmospheric treatment, uncertainty budget (measurement error and uncertainty analysis), and final prediction set.

The final predictions must be established before the decisive observations are examined.

Why Reciprocal Measurements Matter

The experiment should produce quantitative measurements that can be compared with competing mathematical predictions.

The proposed investigation should consider precision measurements made in both directions:

Station A → Station B

and

Station B → Station A

This reciprocal approach is important because apparent elevation differences can be affected by atmospheric refraction and other systematic effects.

The experiment should therefore be designed so that the investigators can distinguish:

• geometric effects;
• atmospheric effects;
• instrument effects;
• surveying errors;
• local environmental effects;
• and other systematic or random uncertainties.

The experiment should not depend upon simply observing whether a distant shoreline or object appears to “drop.”

It should instead produce quantitative measurements that can be compared with competing mathematical predictions.

Required Scientific Questions

The Scientific Coordinator should address, at minimum, the following questions.

1. What exactly is being measured?

The protocol must define the physical quantity or quantities being measured.

2. What does each competing model predict?

The predictions must be mathematical and numerical rather than verbal.

3. What is the expected uncertainty?

The experiment must establish whether the predicted difference between the models is large enough to be distinguished reliably from experimental uncertainty.

4. How will atmospheric refraction be handled?

Temperature, pressure, humidity, vertical temperature gradients, and other relevant atmospheric conditions must be measured or otherwise appropriately incorporated.

5. How will the geodetic reference surface be defined?

The experiment must distinguish among:

• physical water level;
• local vertical;
• geoid;
• ellipsoid;
• instrument reference;
• and the geometrical surface being tested.

6. How will systematic errors be identified?

The protocol should include appropriate calibration, repetition, reciprocal measurements, instrument reversals, independent checks, or other methods recommended by the Coordinator.

7. How will the results be evaluated?

The project must establish beforehand what constitutes meaningful agreement or disagreement between the competing models.

Responsibilities of the Scientific Coordinator

The successful candidate will be expected to provide scientific leadership throughout the initial project.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide scientific leadership throughout the initial project.

Responsibilities may include:

Experimental design

Develop and finalize the experimental methodology.

Site selection

Evaluate Lake Michigan and alternative locations and recommend the scientifically strongest site.

Baseline determination

Determine the appropriate baseline length and configuration.

Instrumentation

Specify suitable instruments, calibration standards, targets, supports, and auxiliary equipment.

Survey methodology

Establish procedures for precision measurement, including reciprocal observations and, where appropriate, repeated measurements.

Environmental monitoring

Specify appropriate meteorological and environmental measurements.

Uncertainty analysis

Prepare a complete uncertainty budget (Measurement Error and Uncertainty Analysis) and identify both random and systematic sources of error.

Model comparison

Develop the quantitative predictions against which observations will be compared.

Independent personnel

Recommend qualified surveyors, geodesists, physicists, atmospheric scientists, statisticians, astronomers, or other specialists as required.

Quality control

Establish procedures for calibration, field documentation, data security, independent verification, and reproducibility.

Data analysis

Oversee or coordinate independent analysis of the observations.

Reporting

Prepare or supervise preparation of a complete technical report documenting methodology, measurements, uncertainties, analysis, results, limitations, and conclusions.

Independence Is Essential

WLC considers independence one of the most important qualifications for this appointment. The Coordinator will have scientific authority independent of WLC’s theological or cosmological conclusions.

WLC considers independence one of the most important qualifications for this appointment.

The Coordinator will have scientific authority independent of WLC’s theological or cosmological conclusions.

WLC will not instruct the Coordinator to obtain a particular result.

The Coordinator will be expected to challenge WLC’s proposed methodology whenever scientifically warranted.

For example, if the Coordinator concludes:

“This experiment would not distinguish the models adequately.”

WLC expects the Coordinator to say so.

If the Coordinator concludes:

“The proposed 100 km Lake Michigan experiment is not the optimal design.”

WLC expects the Coordinator to recommend a better design.

If the Coordinator concludes:

“The measurements support the conventional globe model.”

WLC expects that conclusion to be reported.

If the Coordinator concludes:

“The measurements are inconsistent with the conventional globe model and support a planar model.”

WLC expects that conclusion to be reported as well.

Agreement With WLC Is Not Required

Applicants do not need to agree with WLC’s position concerning Earth’s geometry.

In fact, WLC particularly welcomes qualified professionals who believe that the conventional spherical Earth model is correct.

The essential requirement is not agreement.

It is scientific competence and independence.

A candidate who strongly believes the Earth is a globe but is willing to design the strongest possible test of that proposition may be an excellent candidate.

Minimum Qualifications

Applicants should possess substantial professional or academic experience in one or more relevant fields.

Applicants should possess substantial professional or academic experience in one or more relevant fields, including:

• geodesy;
• geomatics;
• professional surveying;
• experimental physics;
• geophysics;
• physical geography;
• astronomy;
• atmospheric science;
• metrology;
• statistics;
• or a closely related discipline.

Candidates should demonstrate experience with quantitative field measurements and experimental design.

Strongly preferred qualifications include:

• advanced degree in a relevant scientific discipline;
• professional surveying or geodetic licensure/certification;
• substantial long-baseline surveying experience;
• experience with precision total stations;
• experience with precision leveling;
• experience with atmospheric refraction;
• experience developing uncertainty budgets (measurement error and uncertainty analysis);
• peer-reviewed publications or comparable technical work;
• experience directing multidisciplinary field projects;
• experience with open-data or reproducible research;
• experience serving as an independent scientific reviewer.

Independence and Conflict-of-Interest Disclosure

Applicants will be asked to disclose relevant financial, professional, organizational, or other relationships that could reasonably create a conflict of interest.

Applicants will be asked to disclose relevant financial, professional, organizational, or other relationships that could reasonably create a conflict of interest.

Agreement or disagreement with WLC’s cosmological position is not, by itself, a conflict of interest.

The principal concern is whether a candidate has an undisclosed interest in producing a particular experimental outcome.

Compensation

WLC anticipates an initial professional consultancy compensation of approximately:

US $20,000–$30,000

The final amount will depend upon:

• the candidate’s qualifications;
• scope of responsibility;
• duration of engagement;
• travel requirements;
• fieldwork responsibilities;
• and the final experimental design.

Reasonable, pre-approved project-related travel and field expenses would be handled separately from professional compensation.

If the Coordinator subsequently assumes responsibility for additional phases of the Earth Geometry Project, additional compensation may be negotiated.

What WLC Expects the Coordinator to Deliver

Before fieldwork begins, WLC expects the Coordinator to oversee preparation of a written scientific protocol containing, at minimum:

1. The precise research question.
2. The competing mathematical models.
3. Numerical predictions from each model.
4. The proposed field location.
5. Baseline configuration and length.
6. Instruments and specifications.
7. Calibration procedures.
8. Station and target specifications.
9. Measurement sequence.
10. Reciprocal-measurement procedures.
11. Environmental monitoring requirements.
12. Atmospheric-refraction methodology.
13. Geodetic corrections.
14. Measurement Error and Uncertainty Analysis.
15. Statistical methodology.
16. Data-quality criteria.
17. Criteria for model comparison.
18. Procedures for independent verification.
19. Raw-data preservation procedures.
20. Publication and data-release procedures.

This protocol should be completed and approved before the decisive measurements are conducted.

Public Transparency

WLC intends to make the project as transparent as reasonably possible. The objective is to allow qualified independent parties to examine the evidence themselves.

WLC intends to make the project as transparent as reasonably possible.

Subject to legitimate considerations involving personal information, security, contractual restrictions, or other lawful limitations, WLC intends to publish:

• the final protocol;
• model predictions;
• instrument information;
• calibration records;
• field procedures;
• environmental records;
• raw observations;
• data-processing procedures;
• calculations;
• uncertainty estimates;
• and the final report.

The objective is to allow qualified independent parties to examine the evidence themselves.

Independent Review

WLC intends to seek independent scientific review at appropriate stages of the project.

Reviewers should include qualified individuals who are not financially dependent upon the outcome and who may disagree with WLC’s position.

The project should be designed so that a critic can examine the data and methodology and attempt to reproduce or challenge the conclusions.

Subsequent Phases

The $120,000 commitment concerns the initial Earth-geometry experiment.

WLC has also considered a potential series of subsequent investigations if the initial results justify them.

Possible future phases could investigate:

• southern terrestrial geometry;
• the geometrical question of a South Pole;
• southern astronomical observations;
• competing rotational models;
• and, only if scientifically warranted, questions requiring investigation within the Antarctic Treaty area.

These subsequent phases are not predetermined.

Each should be considered on the basis of the evidence produced by the preceding phase.

The Scientific Coordinator may recommend abandoning, redesigning, or replacing a proposed subsequent phase.

Why WLC Is Doing This

The purpose of this project is not simply to collect additional arguments for a conclusion WLC already holds. It is to put a foundational physical claim to a rigorous empirical test. WLC wants qualified scientists to participate precisely because they may identify weaknesses in WLC’s current understanding.

WLC currently believes that Scripture accurately describes the world created by Father Yahuwah and therefore holds a cosmological position that differs fundamentally from the conventional scientific model. WLC’s published beliefs currently describe the Earth as flat and immovable, with the firmament separating the waters above from the waters below. (World’s Last Chance)

WLC also recognizes that holding a conviction does not remove the responsibility to test claims honestly.

The purpose of this project is therefore not simply to collect additional arguments for a conclusion WLC already holds.

It is to put a foundational physical claim to a rigorous empirical test.

WLC wants qualified scientists to participate precisely because they may identify weaknesses in WLC’s current understanding.

The Question We Are Asking Qualified Professionals

We are not asking:

“Can you prove that the Earth is flat?”

We are asking:

“Can you design and coordinate the strongest scientifically defensible experiment that can distinguish between the competing geometrical models?”

And we are asking one further question:

“Are you willing to report the result honestly even if it contradicts your own expectations—or WLC’s?”

If the answer is yes, WLC would like to hear from you.

How to Contact WLC

Interested professionals, university researchers, surveying organizations, scientific institutions, and other qualified parties are invited to contact WLC through the official:

WLC Contact Us page

Please identify the subject of your inquiry as:

Earth Geometry Project — Scientific Coordinator

Candidates should be prepared to provide:

• a curriculum vitae or résumé;
• relevant academic and professional qualifications;
• description of relevant field experience;
• publications or technical reports, where applicable;
• professional certifications or licenses, where applicable;
• three professional references;
• relevant conflict-of-interest disclosures;
• and a brief statement explaining how they would approach the experimental-design challenge.

Applicants are especially encouraged to explain what they would change or improve in WLC’s current proposed approach.

WLC’s Commitment in One Sentence

The competing predictions will be established beforehand. And whatever the scientifically valid outcome, WLC has committed to accept it.

WLC has the conviction—but WLC is willing to put that conviction to the test.

The measurements will be taken.

The data will be published.

The competing predictions will be established beforehand.

And whatever the scientifically valid outcome, WLC has committed to accept it.

We now invite qualified professionals to help us conduct the strongest possible test.

Who Will Lead the Test? — The Earth Geometry Project

[Verse 1]
A challenge is rising, the question is clear,
We’ll put every claim to a test without fear.
With instruments ready and standards in view,
We’ll measure the Earth and let evidence through.
No answer is chosen, no outcome prescribed,
We’ll follow the truth wherever it guides.

[Verse 2]
We’re calling the experts, the skilled and the wise,
The surveyors and scientists, come scrutinize.
Come challenge our methods and tell us what’s wrong,
Make every procedure precise, safe, and strong.
You need not agree with the view that we hold,
We welcome the ones who defend the globe.

[Chorus]
Let the measurements speak, let the numbers ring clear,Let the truth have its day without favor or fear.If the globe is confirmed, we will follow the truth,If a plane is confirmed, we will follow it too.Before we begin, this commitment we make:Whatever the outcome, the truth we will take.

[Verse 3]
A hundred kilometers may form the first span,
But you will decide if there’s better to plan.
The baseline and instruments, methods and place,
Will all be examined with scientific grace.
Refraction and errors and changes in air,
Will all be accounted and measured with care.

[Verse 4]
From station to station, reciprocal sight,
We’ll measure by day and repeat through the night.
The models will tell us what numbers to seek,
Before any outcome gives cause to rejoice.
The predictions are written, the standards are known,
And after the measurements, nothing is changed.

[Chorus]
Let the measurements speak, let the numbers ring clear,Let the truth have its day without favor or fear.If the globe is confirmed, we will follow the truth,If a plane is confirmed, we will follow it too.Before we begin, this commitment we make:Whatever the outcome, the truth we will take.

[Bridge]
No moving the goalposts, no changing the game,
No hiding the data, no guarding a name.
Let critics examine each number and chart,
Let independent minds tear the methods apart.
For truth does not tremble when questions are raised,
And honest investigation needs nothing concealed.

[Verse 5]
The raw data will stand for the whole world to see,
So others can test every claim independently.
The methods and errors, the records and more,
Will all be examined as never before.
And should our assumptions be shown to be wrong,
We will not retreat or pretend to be strong.

[Verse 6]
The project may lead to the phases ahead,
With questions of south and the stars overhead.
But each new investigation must earn its way,
By what the preceding measurements say.
No phase is guaranteed and no conclusion forced,
The evidence alone will determine the course.

[Final Chorus]
Let the measurements speak, let the numbers ring clear,Let the truth have its day without favor or fear.If the globe is confirmed, we will follow the truth,If a plane is confirmed, we will follow it too.Before we begin, this commitment we make:Whatever the outcome, the truth we will take.

[Outro]
So come, all who question, and come, all who know,
Come test every claim of the Earth as we go.
We’re not asking trust, and we’re not asking creed,
We’re asking for testing, for data and deed.
The question is open, the challenge is free:
Let us measure the Earth—and discover what will be.